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A beautiful bird is the only kind we cage.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A beautiful thing is never perfect.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Egyptian)
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A beautiful woman smiling, bespeaks a purse weeping.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A beetle is a beauty in the eyes of his mother.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A beggar is never out of his road.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A beggar's estate lies in all lands.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A beggar's hand is a bottomless basket.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A beggar's wallet is never full.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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A bellyful is a bellyful.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A bellyfull of gluttony will never study willingly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A bespattered hog tries to bespatter another.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A better seldom comes after.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A big nose never spoiled a handsome face.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more
than its fill from a river.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because
it has a song.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A bird in the cage is worth a hundred at large.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A bird is distinguished by its note.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A bird may be ever so small, it always seeks a nest of its own.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bird never flew on one wing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bird which eats berries can be caught, but not a bird that eats
wood.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Maaori)
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you
roses.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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A biting cur wears a torn skin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A black hen lays a white egg.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English, French)
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A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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A blade won't cut another blade; a cheat won't cheat another
cheat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A bleating sheep loses a bite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ethiopian)
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A blind hen can sometimes find her corn.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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A blind horse goes straightforward.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A blind leader of the blind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A blind man can see his mouth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Irish)
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A blind man is not judge of colours.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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A blind man swallows many a fly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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A blind man's stroke, which raises a dust from beneath water.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A blind man's wife needs no paint.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A blind person who sees is better than a seeing person who is
blind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Iranian)
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A blind pigeon may sometimes find a grain of wheat.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A blockhead, a dolt, a donkey, a leaden-headed fellow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A blow from a frying-pan blacks, though it may not hurt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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A blow from a frying-pan, if it does not hurt, smuts.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A blow with a reed makes a noise but hurts not.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A boaster and a liar are cousins.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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A bold attempt is half success.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bold does not always fall when it thunders.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A bold man has luck in his train.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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A bold onset is half the battle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A bolt does not always fall when it thunders.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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A book holds a house of gold.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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